Tees tennis starlet Lynsey Davison won her second British tour event in Hull - then revealed she is quitting the sport.

The first-year Nunthorpe professional ripped up the form book to beat higher-ranked Alice Mackenzie 6-4 6-3.

Yet Lynsey is now hanging up her racquet despite a successful debut season that has brought a world ranking and several notable scalps. She feels a continued career in full-time tennis is just not financially viable.

She said: "I'm glad I played professionally. I've enjoyed it and I'm doing well. It's just difficult to make any money out of it.

"To get higher in the rankings you need the money to go abroad.

"Even if you got #1,000 from a sponsor it doesn't actually go that far.

"To really make a living out of it you've got to make the top 150 in the world but it's so difficult to get the money together to get there.

"Even if I moved up a couple of hundred places I don't think I'd be that much better off."

Lynsey revealed that she was now hoping to take up a teaching career.

She said: "I'm 23 now and think it will be nice to earn a steady wage and not live out of bag for the whole year.

"I got a 2:1 in History from Newcastle and have applied for teaching for September and will look for jobs in PR or something in the meantime.

"It feels the right time to stop at the end of the year and I feel like I'm going out on a high.

"I got to 21st in the British rankings and 797 in the world, won domestic tour events and did well in $10,000 tournaments at home and abroad."

But Lynsey will not stop playing tennis on a part-time basis.

She said: "I'll really miss playing. I don't think I'll realise exactly how much until I've stopped. I'll still play county tennis and the odd British tour event if it's not far away and I'm not doing anything else. But as far as full-time tennis goes it's over for me after I've played at Queens Club next week."